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ANAL STAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anal stage mean?
• ANAL STAGE (noun)
The noun ANAL STAGE has 1 sense:
1. (psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
Familiarity information: ANAL STAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(psychoanalysis) the second sexual and social stage of a child's development during which bowel control is learned
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
anal phase; anal stage
Hypernyms ("anal stage" is a kind of...):
phase; stage (any distinct time period in a sequence of events)
Domain category:
analysis; depth psychology; psychoanalysis (a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud)
Holonyms ("anal stage" is a part of...):
childhood (the time of person's life when they are a child)
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